Patch-pocket folder.



C. B. SCHROEDER.

PATCH POCKET FOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 7, 1914.

1,146,820. Patented July 20, 1915.

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CHARLES E. SCHROE'DER, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

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To all whom it may concern Be it known that 1, CHARLES B. SGHROEDER, a citizen of the United States of America, and a resident of Chicago, county of Cook, and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Patch- Pocket Folders, of which the following is a specification.

The main objects of this invention are to provide a device for use in apparel making, designed to facilitate the operation of forming or folding the hems on patch pockets, pocket flaps, etc, and to provide a device of this nature requiring no mechanism for its operation and which is reversible to form like pockets for each side of a coat.

These objects are accomplished by the device shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a perspective view of a pocket forming device constructed according to this invention. Fig. 2 is another perspective view. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2, but shows the reverse side of the device as employed in forming a pocket reverse in form to that shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4.- is a sectional view taken on the line A-A of Fig. 2, showing a patch pocket and its lining with the edges ironed over. Fig. 5 is a detail view of a pocket with a lining partly trimmed applied thereto.

The work in forming patch pockets which is facilitated by the present device, heretofore was accomplished solely by hand. The patch pockets were first cut to the desired form and then their edges folded inwardly, basted or hemmed, and ironed before being applied to a garment. With the present de vice, no careful hand work is required, nor is it necessary to bast the hem before applying the pocket to the garment.

Machines have been provided for somewhat analogous purposes, viz., the folding of collars, neck ties, shirt tabs, etc, but such machines are not reversible in operation to fold the edges of reversely shaped pieces, and are comparatively expensive so as to be impractical forthe average coat maker.

The present invention consists of a sheet metal plate 1 such as galvanized iron, or other material having only moderate heat conducting qualities, and a second'plate 2 hinged to the plate 1. Plate 1 is provided with an opening 3 slightly larger, but of the same form as plate 2, and the latter may be swung through said opening in Specification of Letters Patent.

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either direction around its hinge connections a with plate 1. The device is preferably provided with a. handle 5 which may be insulated from plate 1 if desired. The handle is important. since the device becomes heated through the repeated applications of a hot iron in the process of folding the edges of the cloth. The hinged plate 2 may be formed by sawing or cutting a slot 6 or punching out the opening 3 in plate 1. There should be enough clearance between the adjacent edges of the plates 1 and 2 to provide room for thecloth.

In the operation of the device, patch pockets 7 which have previously been cut with or without their lining S to the desired size to provide for infolded edges, are placed on plate 1 over the opening 3, as indicated by dotted lines in Fig. 2. The hinged plate 2 is then forced downwardly into the opening 3 so as to lie flush with the surface of plate 1. This causes the edges of the pocket to be turned upwardly, as shown in Fig. 3. The edges are then ironed inwardly, thus completing the pocket, which may then be removed from the device and applied to a coat without necessitating stitching or hemming the pocket before it is sewed to the coat. The device is of special utility in forming velvet pockets, since it protects the face of the pocket from injury in the ironing operation.

The lining may be applied to pockets after their edges are infolded by placing it on the inside of the pocket. and ironing or sewing it to the pocket and then trimming the edges of the lining as shown in Fig. 5. In this manner of applying the lining it is preferably first sewed to the upper edge of the pocket in forming the welt.

Although but one specific embodiment of this invention has been herein shown and described, it will be understood that numerous details of the construction shown may be altered or omitted without departing from the spirit of this invention as defined by the following claims.

I claim 1. A patch pocket forming device, comprising a metal plate having an opening therein, and a plate hinged to said first mentioned plate at one of the edges of said opening, said hinged plate having an outline corresponding to the outline of said open ing but of such size that may pass through said opening around its hinges.

2. A patch pocket forming device, eqm- Signed at Chicago this 4th day of Deprising a metal plate having a cut out p reelpber 1914:.

tionin the form of a'poket and a second CHARLES B. SCHROEDER. plate hinged to said first mentioned. metal Wi lGSSBS:

5 plate in the form of and adapted to fit Rtn ow RUMMLER,

Within said eut 0111', portiqn. M. IRENE HUTCHINGS.

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